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M. CREIGHTON & A. w. mxow.

SIGN LETTER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 21. 1915.

Patented May 9,

INVENTORJ MW (waxy/22b A MK 1110) WITNESSES.

MELVIN GBEIGHTON AND ANDREW W. DIXON, OF RENSSELAEB FALLS, NEW YORK.

SIGN-LETTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 9, 1916.

Application filed July 21, 1915. Serial No. 41,158.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, MELVIN GREIGHTON and ANDREW W. DIXON, citizens of the United States, and residents of Itensselaer Falls, in the county of St. Lawrence an State of New York, have invented new an Improved Sign-Letters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to advertising devices and has particular reference to the construction of signs.

Among the objects of the invention is to provide a novel form or construction of sign letters or characters, the same being made preferably of sheet material such as metal adapted to be stamped up into form and having an ornamental border along either its upper or lower edge together with a novel form of end piece making a finish for the completed sign corresponding to said border or borders.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction disclosed herein, still for the purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a face view of a preferred form of sign character; Fig. 2 is a similar view of another character plate having the same border characteristics and indicating the end piece in place; Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a face view of the end piece detached.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, we show at 10 a substantially fiat plate of sheet metal or its equivalent stamped up as shown at 11 to form a raised character adapted to be painted or otherwise ornamented on its surface without disturbing the flat or ground portion of the device. In other words, by stamping up the characters as indicated, they may be readily assembled for forming complete signs, the individual characters being held in place in proper order by cementing, tacking or by other means, and after the complete sign is made it may be painted from time to time to keep the display portion of the sign in proper condition. The painting may be done by any person whether skilled or not in the art of sign lettering,

Fig. 1 shows a character plate having a character 11 stamped up thereon and also having a marginal rib or stripe 12 at both its top and bottom, the same being stamped up simultaneously with the formation of the sign character. These ribs 12 are of uniform nature and are parallel to the parallel top and bottom edges of the plate. The character shown in Fig. 2 is of the same nature as just described in connection Wit Fig. 1, and illustrates the adaptability to such devices of an end piece shown at 13, Fig. 4, and comprising a stamped up vertical rib 14 spaced from the outer edge in a manner corresponding to the spacing of the ribs 12 from the extreme upper and lower edges of the character plates. The upper and lower ends of the rib are notched out at 14 on their inner edge so as to adapt the end piece to be applied directly over the end of the character plate 10, the ends of the rib 14 overlapping the ends of the ribs 12 and making a neat uniform finish for the signs so constructed. Irrespective, therefore, of the extent of overlapping of the end piece 13 upon the end character device 10, the rib 14 of the end piece will always give a uniform marginal appearance to the finished sign.

Among the many uses to which letters and characters constructed as herein described, may be put, may be mentioned that wherein the letters are disposed on farm barns, or other buildings viewable from a road.

We claim z- 1. The herein described finishing end piece for signs comprising a narrow plate having stamped up thereon a vertical rib, the upper and lower ends of the rib being notched out on the inner edge.

2. The combination with a sign character device comprising a main plate having a character stamped up in its center and upper and lower marginal ribs parallel to the extreme upper and lower edges, of an end finishforming a. connection or continuation of the ing piece of a vertical length equal to the vertWo plate ribs.

tical Width of the character plate and being formed with a; vertical rib of the same form as the ribs aforesaid, the ends of said vertical rib being notched out so as to adapt the end piece to be applied directly on the end of the character plate and With its rib MELVIN CREIGHTON. ANDREW W. DIXON.

Witnesses:

JAsoN TURNER, J. E. MOINTOSH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

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